A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.
Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.
To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
It is a real tragedy for a nation when three groups of it's people, namely politicians, religious leaders and charity workes, just pretend to be generous.
I'm super-popular, so I had to pretend to be a loser, which was super-hard.
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.
I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on TV every week.
Sometimes I stand in store windows and pretend to be a mannequin. People are like 'hey, that mannequin looks alot like thom yorke' Then I start to sing The Gloaming and lurch toward them and they run off horrified.
I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.
I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.
What I think I know about dating is that you can't take back something you say in a date. You can't lie, and you can't pretend to be someone you're not unless it's not going well and you never see them again. It never works if you try to make yourself seem like someone you're not, and you want to keep dating them. Be yourself. Don't embellish. It will always come back to get you.
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity.
I pretend I've got lots of confidence and I'm a big jock and like that but deep inside I'm a frightened, insecure, can't-make-it failure.
I'll pretend that I want you for what is on the inside.
But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.
So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.
I've just been very excited that over the years I've constantly had those types of different experiences. I like staying a little bit like acting school, not experimental, necessarily, but just fun. I have the best job in the world: I pretend for a living. You can't get too precious about that.
I say, when Mercury arrives, we just pretend we’re not here. ” Lawe tipped back his whiskey and swallowed in a single drink. “Stay real quiet. Don’t make eye contact. ” They all nodded.